Kapp Notes

JULY 8, 2009

Disney's Hot Shot Business Club Penguin America's Army River City Project We then discussed some Second Life statistics to see how big that world has become. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds. We then discussed different kids focused simulations, simulated games and virtual worlds like: Simulations at Edheads.

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Classes Simulations Second Life Virtual World 100

Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Worlds for Study: Invitation - Virtual Worlds for Studying Real-World Business (and Law, and Politics, and Sociology, and.) Worlds for Study: Invitation - Virtual Worlds for Studying Real-World Business (and Law, and Politics, and Sociology, and.) Tags: virtual immersive environment 3D Book 3D worlds. by Robert J. by Robert J.

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Virtual World Research Resources Wiki 160

Kapp Notes

JUNE 10, 2010

First, it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts ( Second Life Enterprise Edition ). Most or all of the team that engineered the Second Life Enterprise product was let go not long after it went into production.At Interesting development.

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E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 7, 2008

Arguably the best known virtual world today is Second Life. Anyone can download the Second Life Viewer from the Internet and set up a basic account for free. When the user logs into Second Life, they can use their mouse and keyboard to manipulate their avatar to walk, run, jump, dance, fly and teleport to other locations.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 22, 2010

Venuegen has offered to help Second Life Enterprise users move from the SL Enterprise edition to the Venuegen platform for free. Here is a machinima of the graduation: Negative The 3D virtual world business space isn't big enough to support Thinkbalm's analysis efforts.

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Virtual World Linden Industry Virtual Classroom 157

E-Learning Provocateur

JULY 24, 2008

Skoolaborate is a growing collaborative of high schools that use Second Life to teach students around the world. Westley gave us a real-time tour of Skoolaborate’s islands in Second Life, with commentary from Mike. Plenty of companies have dipped their toes into Second Life with mixed success.

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Second Life Virtual World IBM Director 100

Mark Oehlert

MARCH 8, 2007

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « My Blog is Worth $66, 615.72 (any buyers??) | Main | Google and MSFT to Clash Over Copyrights » March 08, 2007 Voice Coming to Second Life Geez.finally right? According to this press release , Voice will be coming to Second Life in Q2 of 2007.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As you may know, Linden, on October 4th, announced a plan to raise prices for educational and non-profit users of Second Life and not a little increase, a whopping doubling of the previous discount. You will receive confirmation of receipt of your request within 1 business day. Tags: 3D worlds industry.

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Linden Second Life Virtual World Open Source 170

Kapp Notes

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

When we pause to consider this fact it is almost impossible to imagine how much change this technology has brought to Society, Business and Learning and how much more it will bring. A mentality forged by playing video games and interacting in 3D worlds such as Second Life, Active Worlds and There.com. Tags: 3D worlds.

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Learning Environment Environment Second Life Gartner 100

Mark Oehlert

JULY 3, 2007

Forterra Systems OLIVE (On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment) platform was compared to Second Life and won three of the four application categories (best for Education,Enterprise, Training / Simulation), with Second Life winning forBrands/Marketing in votes by the audience. Clay Shirky My latest additions to del.icio.us

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Mark Oehlert

JULY 16, 2008

Tag Cloud Lovely work by Heike Scholz and found via Rudy De Waele. tag cloud by Markus Angermeier July 16, 2008 in Mobile Learning , Visualization | Permalink Technorati Tags : mobile , tag clouds , web 2.0 Tag Cloud : Comments The comments to this entry are closed. . | Main | Day 4 - Man.Im just getting warmed up!

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Kapp Notes

MAY 26, 2009

Here are some interesting examples of using virtual worlds for learning, manufacturing and business: In the manufacturing arena, the level of complexity of today’s assembly lines cannot be accomplished with two-dimensional visualization. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds.

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Mark Oehlert

MARCH 7, 2007

What kills me though as I read t he comments on the TechCrunch post , comments like " I just get so damn bored walking around second life.that needs to change " and " I explored the second life world for a week to try and understand the hype " - is how people that are so tuned into Web 2.0

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The topic of the night was “Unleasing the business value of 3D immersive environments for enterprise learning and collaboration.&# Tony and Lia presented virtually in ProtoSphere and in Second Life. Lia DiBello provides a tour through a factory created in Second Life. One such meeting is shown below.

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ASTD Social Networks Virtual World Case Study 124

Kapp Notes

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Only Second Life has a model where people can buy goods that are corporate focused. Is some type of "open virtual world business shop" what in store for 2010 and beyond? Tags: virtual immersive environment. Additonally, "Virtual goods is the whole story in the world of social games.

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Virtual World Second Life Streaming Enterprise 113

Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 15, 2008

This is another liveblogged post from the TCC 2008 conference, presented by Robert Fulkerth, Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA. Developed a course on social networking for business. Many businesses consider time on social networking sites wasted, but not all. Second Life.

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Social Networks Social Network Network Wiki 170

Kapp Notes

MAY 22, 2009

Choose a Group Interested in the Potential of Virtual Worlds —Choose a group interested in the business advantages of HIVEs. The pilot group needs to have both technology savvy individuals as well as people focused on business outcomes. Tags: Second Life 3D worlds. Any more ideas?

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Learning Technologies Technology Virtual World Second Life 150

Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Business ecosystem, learnscape. Second Life is expensive and most orgs not ready for it yet. Tags: Workplace Learning e-Learning George Siemens Jay Cross learntrends Tony Karrer. E-learning is 10 years old. Showed a graphic of e-learning companies that existed in 2000, then who’s still left now. Not many survivors.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 26, 2010

It has been described as a lot more than Cisco’s WebEx meeting platform, and a lot less than Linden Labs’ Second Life virtual world. Tags: 3D worlds. Virtual world provider, VenueGen , recently came out of private Beta to a public Beta (whatever that means) and loudly announced their virtual meeting platform.

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Kapp Notes

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

For those of you who don’t know, Anders Gronstedt (anders@gronstedtgroup.com) is president of the Gronstedt Group , which custom develops immersive learning programs for Fortune 500 clients, and host of “Train for Success,” a weekly Second Life speaking series that has been ongoing for several years.

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Virtual World Discussion Second Life PowerPoint 133

Kapp Notes

JANUARY 28, 2009

Tags: Second Life 3D worlds. In terms of the explanation of the value of learning in 3D I ask "Are we on target with this?" Let me know what you think. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide.

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Virtual World Cognitive Second Life Press 113

Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

This list isn’t categorized in any way, and it’ll stay that way until I figure out a good way to tag and qualify them in some way. Serious Games: Slideshow of examples from an event at Harvard Business School, December 13, 2007. Tags: Game Based Learning Learning Technology Design DGBL Games Technology Top 100. What is a Game?

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Games Resources Simulations PDF 280

Upside Learning

JUNE 24, 2009

This list isn’t categorized in any way, and it’ll stay that way until I figure out a good way to tag and qualify them in some way. Serious Games: Slideshow of examples from an event at Harvard Business School, December 13, 2007. Tags: Game Based Learning Learning Technology Design DGBL Games Technology Top 100. What is a Game?

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Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

In MMORPGs, clans can identify themselves further by developing their own virtual territories, building businesses, and earning virtual currency (Childress & Brasswell, 2006). Yet the clear distinction in Second Life is between the traders and those who purchase. Tomorrow: The Tribal Web Reference Childress, M.

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Kapp Notes

APRIL 13, 2010

Here are even a few more alternatives to Second Life for you to check out. EON Coliseum is an online multiuser solution that enables individuals and businesses to present and share their ideas, communicate complex concepts and collaborate in 3D. Tags: 3D worlds. OpenSimulator or OpenSim Building in OpenSim.

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Second Life Alternatives Simulations Virtual World 216

Learning with e's

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

In MMORPGs, clans can identify themselves further by developing their own virtual territories, building businesses, and earning virtual currency (Childress and Brasswell, 2006). Yet the clear distinction in Second Life is between the traders and those who purchase. Tomorrow: The Tribal Web Reference Childress, M.

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E-Learning Provocateur

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Just like you know only Gen-Y Americans are interested in Second Life and only spammers and corporate cowboys use Twitter. All walks of life work in the corporate sector, and the sector is subject to business realities. Tags: instructional design learning theory andragogy constructivism instructivism pedagogy.

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Pedagogy Attitudes Theory Instructional Design 182

Janet Clarey

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Business (People who write about *you guessed it* business. Virtual Worlds (Mostly newer 3D stuff…not Second Life…which you probably thought of first.). Tags: Uncategorized Blogs lazy Organization RSS. Look at these categories and you’ll see how I ended up with duplicates in various folders.

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Blogging RSS Write Blog Second Life 52

Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2009

This was largely because several of the organizers had recently attended one or another of the SRI/ADL meetings on the topic, but also because one of the organizers ( @KoreenOlbrish ) is majorly active in the business of virtual worlds for learning through her company Tandem Learning. Tags: design technology. Both are true, of course.

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Virtual World Cognitive ADL IBM 100

Kapp Notes

MARCH 11, 2010

In fact, Edward Castronova, in his book, Synthetic Worlds: The Business and Culture of Online Games predicts in the future battles may occur between virtual armies for virtual territory and that countries must begin to train "soldiers" how to fight as avatars. Tags: Out and About programming. So the need for hackers is not trivial.

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Server Player Virtual World Predictions 186

eLearning 24-7

JUNE 1, 2010

Sloode - Multi-user virtual environment of Second Life® with the Moodle® learning-management system, Can be used in corporate and education. Open Elms - Support for articulate, captivate, targets business. Tags: LCMS LMS Moodle Open Source Uncategorized e-learning elearning joomla. ILIAS 4 e-Learning.

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Mark Oehlert

JUNE 5, 2008

» June 05, 2008 "Using the Company as the Classroom" (Business Week) ( Story Link ) "In 2006 alone, U.S. We are plainly witnessing a restructuring of the music and newspaper businesses, but their suffering isn’t unique, it’s prophetic."--Clay If you find something, just tag it with kurt+lewin to add it to the mix.

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Social Bookmarking Classroom Social Networks Wiki 32

Jay Cross

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

I don’t expect 3D learning environments to thrive in Second Life. Second Life is a pioneer and is the gorilla in the 3D space right now. Conservative organizations and schools are more likely to adopt environments developed specifically for business and academic applications.

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Metrics Second Life Simulations Instructional Design 41

Mark Oehlert

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Military (strategy+business) ( strategy +business link ) I think this article is nice treatment of the generational shift as it may play out in the U.S. Military (strategy+business) : Comments The comments to this entry are closed. If you find something, just tag it with kurt+lewin to add it to the mix.

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Social Networks Social Bookmarking eLearning Strategy Strategy 32

Mark Oehlert

AUGUST 28, 2007

" Link to Business Week Special Report on Gaming August 28, 2007 in Gaming & Learning | Permalink Technorati Tags : games , gaming TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference "The Name of the Game Is Work" (Business Week) : Comments The comments to this entry are closed.

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Wiki Social Bookmarking Games Social Networks 32

Mark Oehlert

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The good news is that Second Life ne Linden Lab, has announced a partnership with IBM to "develop new technologies and methodologies based on open standards that will help advance the future of 3D virtual worlds. Coverage from the Second Life Insider. Coverage from CNN Money. Comments Hi Mark, In my debate (stoush?)

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Virtual World IBM Linden News 32

Jay Cross

APRIL 7, 2009

The Ultimate Business Time-Saver. Results: About 20% of the small-business owners I spoke to had heard of the product, and approximately 0% could describe what it actually does. Even after 15 years in the technology business, I found myself at a loss to explain (let alone justify) these sorts of collaboration tools.

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Social Networks SharePoint Long Tail Drupal 36